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Power game – Ratuva says parties’ MoU agreement can be effective

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National Federation Party leader, Professor Biman Prasad with The People Alliance Party leader Sitiveni Rabuka after their signing at the Victoria Palms Hotel conference room in Suva on Friday, April 08, 2022. Picture: JONACANI LALAKOBAU

Forming post-election alliances through formal agreement is an effective way of drawing in a broader and more culturally diverse group of voters into a bigger support bloc.

Award-winning political sociologist and global interdisciplinary scholar Professor Steven Ratuva said this while responding to the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed recently by the National Federation Party and The People’s Alliance party.

The two parties have undertaken to work together in the lead-up to the 2022 General Election.

Prof Ratuva said politics everywhere had to do with power contestation, and the removal or weakening of those in power was usually one of the most fundamental factors of this “power game”.

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